Youth Music Incubator Fund in the UK

Deadline: 2-Dec-22

The Youth Music Trailblazer Fund offers grants of £5,000 to £30,000 available to businesses, collectives, and not-for-profits working in the music industries.

The fund is designed to create sustainable, meaningful career opportunities for young people aged 18-25, particularly those who are currently unrepresented in the sector and to support creative employers to innovate and incubate new and diverse talent. The fund is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

Prioritise

Demonstrate the ability to provide impactful opportunities and pathways into the commercial music industries.
Demonstrate a clear commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Have a diverse leadership team/workforce.
Are unable to otherwise fund the programme themselves.
Could use Youth Music investment to seed-fund more permanent ways of supporting talent from diverse backgrounds.
Emerging companies or start-ups who could benefit from investment.
Have a turnover of under £1 million.

Funding Information

The Youth Music Incubator Fund offers grants between £5,000 and £30,000 to businesses, collectives and not-for-profits working across the music industries.

Eligibility Criteria

Are based in the UK and operate in Scotland, England or Wales.
Have a business bank account.
Can provide a recent set of financial accounts (if you/the organisation doesn’t yet have a set of accounts, then we’ll accept a spreadsheet that tracks your income and expenditure to date, or your most recent set of management accounts).
Have a legal status (i.e. registered with Companies House, Charity Commission, FCA or HMRC or have a constitution) – the following are all eligible:
- Sole traders (please note that the maximum grant size for sole traders is £15,000)
- Unincorporated associations (voluntary group with a constitution)
- Registered charity
- Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
- Company limited by guarantee
- Company limited by share capital
- Community Benefit Society
- Collectives: if you are a collective with no formal legal status (an ‘informal collective’) then another organisation can apply on your behalf (a ‘sponsor organisation’). This can be:
- a member of your collective who is a registered sole trader (please note that the maximum grant size for sole traders is £15,000)
- another partner organisation.
If successful, the sponsor organisation or sole trader would be required to enter into the funding agreement with Youth Music. A robust partnership agreement should therefore be in place between the sponsor organisation and the collective.